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Simon Gaunt, Simon (University of Cambridge) Gaunt, Michael Sheringham

Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature

English · Hardback

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Zusammenfassung In this wide-ranging study of Old French and Occitan literature! Simon Gaunt draws on contemporary feminist theory to examine how masculinity! as well as femininity! is constructed in these texts! and shows the crucial role of gender in the formation of the ideologies that underpin medieval literary genres. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Monologic masculinity: the chanson de geste; 2. The knight meets his match: romance; 3. Troubadours, ladies and language: the canso; 4. Saints, sex and community: hagiography; 5. Genitals, gender and mobility: the fabliaux.

Product details

Authors	Simon Gaunt, Simon (University of Cambridge) Gaunt
Assisted by	Michael Sheringham (Editor)
Publisher	Cambridge University Press ELT

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	11.05.1995

EAN	9780521464949
ISBN	978-0-521-46494-9
No. of pages	384
Series	Cambridge Studies in French
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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